Sunday, June 03, 2007

On Friendship

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation."

--George Washington

"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere."

--Ali ibn-Abi-Talib

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

"We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often."

--Jeannette Winterson

"True friends stab you in the front."

--Oscar Wilde

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."

--Anon

"A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked."

--Bernard Meltzer

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Sometimes we put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. I'll miss a lot of great people this long, hot, lonely summer faraway.I love you guys :'-) Truly exceptional friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.